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 baked, his white cambrick handkerchief, and his opera-glass, announcing a beau, naturally attract the regard of the belles. Your popular preachers are moreover men of stature, and the same figures that are in request in the pulpit, are chiefly sought to stand behind a carriage, and would also have been choice acquisitions to Serjeant Kite; and he that is born to be six feet high, is born to be a great man. With so many qualifications, you may depend on it, Mr. Gillyflower, the clerical harlequin before us, would outstrip, in favour, a Horseley, a Watson, a Blair." "I can hardly think that," said our hero. "Cannot you," replied Manchester: "pray whether is Belvidera and Lady Randolph, or Mother Shipton and General Jackoo, most highly prized?"

A groupe now attracted their eyes, consisting of several pairs; first, there